| A Perfect Circle – A Stranger Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "fuck ultimatum"? | |
| The Blenders – Charlie Anyboy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It is about an adults carelessness and a childs cluelessness resulting in tragedy. | |
| Dar Williams – The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always thought this song is about looking back and finding humor in your mistakes. She still believes in the cause, but is likely more effective in making a difference with her current methods. Seeing her ex makes her realize how much she has grown up. He is protesting the misuse of dead animals, joining cults, and stoned out of his mind. She, in contrast, has learned to focus her enthusiasm into a more effective approach. |
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| Dar Williams – The Great Unknown Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is about the double edged sword “advances” in society and technology can be. The most obvious example in the song is nuclear research. It starts out with the excitement of an accomplishment: "Look at the light we're giving you, And the darkness we're saving you from." They had harnessed a renewable, clean, seemingly endless supply of energy. This was going to end our dependence on fossil fuel. The world’s dependence on non renewable resources was over! Then comes the realization: "Now we've built it, now it's ticking" The narrator is trying to protest continued research because it has become apparent this development could be the end of mankind. She is attempting to “put the atom back together”, or to undo what the splitting of the atom has done. |
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| Eagles – Frail Grasp on the Big Picture Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| it is talking about how people are too focused on little things. like the "eternal question" of who left the cap off the toothpaste. Or assuming the win of such and such football team is not only part of gods grand design, but IS gods grand design. not even considerign there are more important things in life. | |
| Mika – Grace Kelly Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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who is humphrey smith? "last time we talked mr smith, you reduced me to tears..." "humphrey, we're leaving" someone having to do with grace kelly? |
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| Dar Williams – When I Was a Boy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I can relate so so much to this song. I love how she can make so many references to who a woman, and a man, are expected to be. I like the reference about how a woman should always be on display (tight shirt) and always think she is not good enough (implants). As a kid she got to be topless and not care how people think she measures up. Mostly I love how she doesn't blame men for girls feeling the need to do these things, but society/marketing. She paints men as just as much victums of growing up as women are. |
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| Dar Williams – Beautiful Enemy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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One of my favorite Dar Williams songs. It is a song about enemys and how sometimes they like to think the other is evil, when really they are just equal opposite forces. The song shows how they waste time/resources/... in the process of trying to outdo the other. It shows both that conclusion that the other is wrong: "Can't they see that your reign is steely and torturous?" and that the other group isn't actually savage, just competition: "We'll both live in a world of civilized people Though I've heard that my brand new church Has a slightly higher steeple" It just reminds me of so many situations I see where people demonize the other side, instead of working together to accomplish the ultimate goal, which they do not realize is the same for both sides. |
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| Dar Williams – February Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i don't think the "new" relationship is with a new person. i think it is a metaphore for coming out of a rough patch in a relationship. i think she throws the keys into the water, and her "new lover" makes keys to replace those lost in the fight. the walk shows how muchshe had forgot of the landscape of their relationship before the harsh winter. when the leaves turn they start chopping wood in order to survive the next rough season in their relationship. |
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| Everlast – White Trash Beautiful Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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oh, and the line: It's 4 AM and doin' 95, Tryin' to stay awake and make it home alive is actually It's 4 AM and I doin' 95, Tryin' to stay awake and make it home alive . ...he is trying to hurry his truck's route so he can get home to her. |
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| Everlast – White Trash Beautiful Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i don't think the narrator is some guy who wants to "save" her from her living situation and her guy. i think the narrator is the husband. he says "i know you coulda found you some better guy so i'm gonna love you till the day I die" and i think that may be self loathing because he isn't there for her as he wants to be. she is in love with him, and lonely because he is a truck driver and is not home much. he drives truck to support her and the baby to be, but drinks himself to sleep because he is heartbroken he can not be with her at the moment. what keeps him going is he knows he will get to go home to her. i think the point of the song is to show the plight of "trailer trash". these people are not at all trashy, and they love each other very much. they are just stuck in a financial situation that has them traped in a trailer home and a truck. |
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| Bowling for Soup – 99 Biker Friends Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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in the backgroud you hear: 99 biker friends, tough little mexicans, 69 lesbians fyi... |
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| Everlast – Ends Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i don't think "sally" is a prostitute, but a gold digger. she wants to live an expensive lifestyle, so she will "do the bending" to get the cash to do so. most people do not give keys to their "krib" to a hooker, but they would to their girlfriend. | |
| Hanson – I Will Come To You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i love the music and instrumentation of this song. i wish they would record it again now that their voices have matured. i think it would be really pretty in a wedding... | |
| Fall Out Boy – I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me and You) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i really don't know if this song was written about what is going on in Northern Uganda, but it cetainly applies. The music video depicts a young couple in love. He saves all his money and can eventually afford to go to school, providing a better life for both of them. Then he is kidnapped by the LRA to be a child soldier. He escpaes, but his two accomplises are slain in the process. When he gets back to her they are not nearly as close. He eventually reaces for her hand. "Prettier and younger but not any better off". These kids have the power of youth, but just like the kids of 20 years ago live in fear of being kidnapped. They come back appearantly emotionless, because if they cry the older soldiers will brutally kill them in front of the others. they learn to be hollow. I think the line "if i woke up next to you" is refering to the boys longing to "wake up" from the numbness he has been forced to feel. wanting to wake up who he was before the trama. Though maybe this song is just about wishing to wake up to the times before it all went bad. When people were still optimistic, and didnt have the scars. Maybe the wording came from the phrase, "the honeymoon is over" |
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| Ray Lavender – My Girl Gotta Girlfriend Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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so i have to know if i am the only person who mistook "konvict" for "cotton d*ck". as far as the meaning of this song... i think it is pretty clear |
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| Sufjan Stevens – For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I wonder if "a mother's morning dress" should be "mourning dress". This could be a contrast to the "i was dressed in white" statement, reflecting the black attire of a funeral. Plus I have no idea what a morning dress would be... | |
| Everclear – Wonderful Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think the line "i don't wanna meet your friends" should be "i don't wanna meet your friend", like when a parent brings home their new "friend" to meet the kid. the kid does not want to "start over again" with a new step mom/dad | |
| A Fine Frenzy – Think of You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think the line phrase, "And green initials on the towels" is supposed to mean she is married. Towels with the couple's initials, likely a wedding present. I take the phrase "I should be happy now", to mean she thought getting married would fix her desire to be with this other guy who, as at least seemingly, moved on. She is in the great big house with a new husband, but still sees him as her home. | |
| Eve 6 – Hey Montana Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think montana in this song is the state. a state of small towns where everyone knows all your secrets and they care enough about you to spell your name right. and they notice if you have been crying. i think her bones showing through is a visual representation of what hollywood is doing to her. maybe she can't afford to feed herself, or she may be anorexic. anyway i can't decide if this song is a plea to her family to accept her back after she ran away, or if it is her hope montana will take her back. maybe she feels everyone will judge her for having left. she is a failure because she couldn't make it outside the town. or they think she thinks she is too good for them and that is why she left. but in any case, she needs to be in that town again. |
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| Eve 6 – On The Roof Again Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think i took this a little differently... going to the roof and screaming "i am going to jump" doesn't sound to me like an attempt to commit suicide: it sounds like me like he is trying to guilt her into forgiving him. the narrator seems to be a friend who is trying to convince him to come down and handle this in a rational way. he is aware his friend is likely not suicidal, but he is not going to call him out on it because his friend needs his support right now. |
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| Backstreet Boys – Over Her Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The_Decockster - this was on the Never Gone promo CD, and cut for the final. You would have to find somebody with a leaked copy. | |
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